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Features for this Windows-only management software include more than 120 pre-built Web reports, vulnerability assessment and mitigation tools, a new patch deployment wizard and distribution tools. Further, SMS 2003 SP1 has the capacity to run self-healing application installations on "locked-down" systems. It comes with a new client that taps the power of Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) technology to automatically detect the capacity of the client network connection and adjust transfer rates. And the lackluster support for mobile clients that plagued SMS 2002 has been dramatically improved, judges noted.

SMS 2003 SP1 was also praised by the judges for ease of integration with other Microsoft products, such as Active Directory, Microsoft Operations Manager, Virtual PC, Application Center and Internet Information Services.

SharePoint can improve the efficiency of your business, but is your implementation providing a positive ROI? Usage reporting can help you find out by tracking who is using SharePoint, how they are using it and why.

EVO:RAIL and EVO:RACK mark VMware’s entrance into the hyper-converged infrastructure market. The question now is whether or not either can separate from the competition. Also, what does this mean for VDI shops?